Suspension is the placement of an employee in an involuntary, paid or unpaid status for a temporary indeterminate period of time pending investigation, inquiry, or further management action. Suspension is the temporal withdrawal from employment, as distinguished from permanent severance. The Supreme Court in University of Calabar v Esiaga (1997) 4 NWLR (Pt. 528) 719 SC, stated that: “the word suspension means a temporary privation or deprivation, stoppage or cessation of or from the right or privileges of a person. The word carries or conveys a temporary or transient disciplinary procedure which keeps away the victim or person disciplined from his regular occupation … Continue reading THE LEGALITY OF INDEFINITE SUSPENSION OF AN EMPLOYEE